Favorite bands...

[Perversion]

I was prompted to start this thread because someone's thread mentioned a band called Dir en Grey. I guess I'm getting old, but I never heard of that. So here is my list (in no particular order) of my top ten bands...

Stereolab
Velvet Underground
Mazzy Star
Low
Guided by Voices
Joy Division
Labradford
Main
Flying Saucer Attack
Aphex Twin

Any comments on any of these choices? Or post your own top ten.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Favorite bands...

Smash Mouth FTW.

[Nixon]

Re: Favorite bands...

I really love the ambient Aphex Twin tunes. I don't care much for his other techno, but every now and then I like one of his really heavy songs.

I think Dave has a bunch of Guided by Voices albums, but I've only heard one of them.

Top Ten, eh? I'll try...

Primus
KMFDM
Portishead
AIR
Ministry
Beck
Moby (anything up to PLAY- I mostly dig his loud techno stuff)
The Prodigy
Reverend Horton Heat
Pink Floyd

[Loki]

Re: Favorite bands...

Right now my iPod is playing host to the following bands:

The Decemberists
The Flaming Lips
Bob Dylan
The Shins
Belle & Sebastion
The Strokes
The White Stripes
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie
Sufjan Stevens
Neutral Milk Hotel
Wilco
The New Pornographers
Ween
The Magic Numbers
The OneUps
Franz Ferdinand

[Perversion]

Re: Favorite bands...

I really love the ambient Aphex Twin tunes.

Me too. My favorite album of his is Selected Ambient Works, Vol 2 (the 2 cd set with the brown Aphex Twin logo on front). I'm glad to see that all the bands you mentioned I've actually HEARD of (and listened to most of them) before. Ministry is good, as is KMFDM, but my musical tastes have kind of progressed to slower stuff, some soothing (like Low) and some really bleak and dark (like Main and Labradford). However, a good dose of Stigmata, Burning Inside, or Scarecrow every now and then can be really cathartic.

[Valkysas]

Re: Favorite bands...

Masaaki Endoh
S.S.H
Psychic Lover
AKINO
Malice Mizer
Shinji Kakijima
L'arc en Ciel
JAM Project
The Pillows
Mosquito Milk

I gave up on american music years ago.

[Nixon]

Re: Favorite bands...

Me too. My favorite album of his is Selected Ambient Works, Vol 2 (the 2 cd set with the brown Aphex Twin logo on front).

Yeah, I actually went through two copies of that album...

My favorite track is "tree." Some of Akira Yamaoka's work is obviously inspired by his music.

I just went through a phase where I was listening to nothing but obscure and dark German/French industrial music. The stuff Dave refers to as "what is this noise?"

[John Mora]

Re: Favorite bands...

Masaaki Endoh
S.S.H
Psychic Lover
AKINO
Malice Mizer
Shinji Kakijima
L'arc en Ciel
JAM Project
The Pillows
Mosquito Milk

I gave up on american music years ago.

You still have AKINO on there?

[Valkysas]

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I've been digging around for more of her stuff, and I've found I really like some of it.

[Perversion]

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Hey, Valk, is that all Japanese music? Because if you want to hear a good Japanese band (but they sing in English) check out Sugar Plant. VERY soothing and mellow. Narcoleptic, actually.

[Patryn]

Re: Favorite bands...

I just all over the place in terms of what I like. If you want particular bands that I have listened to:

Ben Folds Five
Radiohead
Our Lady Peace (First three albums)
Beatles
Grandaddy
VAST

There's more, but that's off the top of my head. But the biggest area that I'm a fan of is 80's New Wave. I can't get enough of that stuff.

[The Dark Jester]

Re: Favorite bands...

Ween
At the Drive In
Guided By Voices
The Pixies
Beatles
Beastie Boys
Velvet Underground
The Mars Volta
Quasi
Ben Folds (Five)
Blonde RedHead
Devo
Dismemberment Plan

plenty more. but those bands I could pull any CD from their discography and enjoy.

[AbstractOrigin]

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These are my top bands I've been listening to for a while:

175R (Inago Rider)
Motion City Soundtrack
Bloc Party


I listen to more, but those are 3 I can call off the top of my head.

[John Mora]

Re: Favorite bands...

I've been digging around for more of her stuff, and I've found I really like some of it.

If it's Kanno-composed, by all means share it with me. Or if you think I'd like it.

[Snarf]

Re: Favorite bands...

The Magnetic Fields
The Flaming Lips
Portishead
Beth Gibbons
Bjork
Interpol
Modest Mouse
The Shins
Elysian Fields
VAST
Keane
Chris Isaak
Ryan Adams
Massive Attack